Thomas Lyons - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 156 |
| Date of admission: | 11 July 1859 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | Under committal |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Stout |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cow pox |
| Particular marks: | Blue spots on right and left thumbs |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Nottingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | Hawker for his father |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | A little |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Pocket picking |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 17 June 1859 |
| Where convicted: | Stafford |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 2 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Not known |
| Father's name: | John Thompson (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Hawker |
| Residence: | Sandy Lane, Nottingham |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Bridget Thompson |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father dead |
| Survivor married again? | Mother is |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Weekly amount parents will pay | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | 10 Jun 1861 - released to his parents 1 month before expiration of his term |
Notes:
| 2 July 1859 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 2 July 1859 p.6 col.5: STEALING FROM THE PERSON AT BURTON. THOMAS LYONS, 13, hawker, was charged with having stolen from the person of Caroline Sldwell, at Burton-upon- Trent, the sum of 6s. - Mr. Young appeared for the prosecution. The prosecutrix was walking along High-street on the 20th April last, and she felt the prisoner's hand in her pocket. She immediately missed some money, about 6s.. and she apprehended the prisoner, there being no one near but a man who declined to assist her. The money was not found on the boy when searched. The prisoner, a precocious youth, cross- examined the prosecutrix and a witness whom she called; but he did not shake their testimony. He was found guilty, and sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment in the house of correction and to be sent to the reformatory at Saltley for two years |
| 25 March 1860 Sent to the General Hospital with a bad foot |
| 17 April 1860 Fetched back but still uncured and stated by the surgeon to be uncertain how long it will be healing |
| 6 September 1860 The Minute Book contains this: 708. Resolved: That Mr Tarleton be requested to give his opinion as to the steps most advisable to be taken of Lyons, the only sick inmate. |
| 4 October 1860 The Minute Book reports: 715. On reading Minute 708, a letter was read from Mr Tarleton, containing his recommendations with reference to the boy Lyons, and it was agreed that they should be called into effect. |
| 10 June 1861 Let out on leave to work with his father and mother at Manchester. Term expired 16 July |